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I adored BeOS back in the day. Although I've long since taken refuge with Mac OS X, I'd love to build a box specifically to run Haiku on native hardware. While Haiku is usable in a VM, it loses the snappiness that only bare metal can bring.

I'd love to relegate my Mac for work-only, and build a Haiku box for fun/the rest of life/as a hobby/to hack on/to help the Haiku Project. There's more than enough software out there to get by on, and new stuff hits all the time. I'm just sick of being stuck in a VM!

I wish I could confidently go and buy a motherboard, a CPU and RAM, a graphics card, put it together, and know Haiku will work with them. I don't mind what, I'm happy to build from scratch, but the Haiku Project is totally vague about what hardware works. It's taken a third-party - Haikuware - to put together a hardware database, but it's an out-of-date mess and wildly inaccurate (so many video cards are listed as supported, until you dive a little deeper and see they're all just VESA. That's not really 'support').

So, yes, I wish I could build a Haiku box and know it would work. Otherwise, I love the project and how far it's come!

I adored BeOS back in the day. Although I've long since taken refuge with Mac OS X, I'd love to build a box specifically to run Haiku on native hardware. While Haiku is usable in a VM, it loses the snappiness that only bare metal can bring.

I'd love to relegate my Mac for work-only, and build a Haiku box for fun/the rest of life/as a hobby/to hack on/to help the Haiku Project. There's more than enough software out there to get by on, and new stuff hits all the time. I'm just sick of being stuck in a VM!

I wish I could confidently go and buy a motherboard, a CPU and RAM, a graphics card, put it together, and know Haiku will work with them. I don't mind what, I'm happy to build from scratch, but the Haiku Project is totally vague about what hardware works. It's taken a third-party - Haikuware - to put together a hardware database, but it's an out-of-date mess and wildly inaccurate (so many video cards are listed as supported, until you dive a little deeper and see they're all just VESA. That's not really 'support').

So, yes, I wish I could build a Haiku box and know it would work. Otherwise, I love the project and how far it's come!

I adored BeOS back in the day. Although I've long since taken refuge with Mac OS X, I'd love to build a box specifically to run Haiku on native hardware. While Haiku is usable in a VM, it loses the snappiness that only bare metal can bring.

I'd love to relegate my Mac for work-only, and build a Haiku box for fun/the rest of life/as a hobby/to hack on/to help the Haiku Project. There's more than enough software out there to get by on, and new stuff hits all the time. I'm just sick of being stuck in a VM!

I wish I could confidently go and buy a motherboard, a CPU and RAM, a graphics card, put it together, and know Haiku will work with them. I don't mind what, I'm happy to build from scratch, but the Haiku Project is totally vague about what hardware works. It's taken a third-party - Haikuware - to put together a hardware database, but it's an out-of-date mess and wildly inaccurate (so many video cards are listed as supported, until you dive a little deeper and see they're all just VESA. That's not really 'support').

So, yes, I wish I could build a Haiku box and know it would work. Otherwise, I love the project and how far it's come!

It is being ported, but :

"There are still some hangups to getting the first bootstrap build
going. It would be really helpful if someone could figure out the
issues between haiku and gcc such that gcc could be built with the
java support, so we could use it for bootstrapping."

There's a Gnash port too, though personally I think they'd be better off focussing on a good HTML5 capable browser, Flash is a dead man walking.

The wireless stack is a work in progress, based on the FreeBSD 8.0 WLAN stack.

http://www.haikuware.com/blog
http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/activity/haiku-wifi

Colin is working to a bounty in the spirit of carrot driven development:

http://www.haikuware.com/bounties/

The wireless stack is a work in progress, based on the FreeBSD 8.0 WLAN stack.

http://www.haikuware.com/blog
http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/activity/haiku-wifi

Colin is working to a bounty in the spirit of carrot driven development:

http://www.haikuware.com/bounties/

pffft isos...

http://www.haikuware.com/view-details/development/app-installation/senryu-personal-edition-vmware-image-weekly

Haiku booted under 10-15 seconds

I can vouch for this. Haiku is fast at booting. I think some of the more feature rich versions of Haiku are a little slower. This is likely due to additional drivers.

I've tried Haiku on a virtual machine and I must say it's pretty cool. If you are thinking about trying it yourself, beware, it doesn't come with a web browser installed. You can download one as well as various other programs at Haikuware.com. If you want a version that has everything pre-installed try the weekly superpack.

I've tried Haiku on a virtual machine and I must say it's pretty cool. If you are thinking about trying it yourself, beware, it doesn't come with a web browser installed. You can download one as well as various other programs at Haikuware.com. If you want a version that has everything pre-installed try the weekly superpack.

There is a fairly recent vmware environment maintained by haikuware.com

The Feb. 9th release is http://www.haikuware.com/view-details/development/app-installation/74-weekly-super-pack-feb9th-r23934

It contains a fairly diverse set of old beos apps which are function in haiku as well.

In terms of compiling the project and installation to a partition, doing this from linux is by far the easiest route due to the lack of an installer and tested self-hosting.

http://www.haiku-os.org/documents/dev/installing_haiku_to_a_partition_from_linux

Hope this helps.